Marion Tait

Marion Tait CBE is a former ballerina and ballet mistress, and assistant director of Birmingham Royal Ballet since 2011.

Tait was made an OBE in 1992, and a CBE in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Tait was named Dancer of the Year 1994 and received the Evening Standard Ballet Award for Outstanding Performance.

In Birmingham Royal Ballet's 2013 production of The Sleeping Beauty, Tait played the wicked fairy Carabosse.